I remember reading in Spike Milligan's book of his time in the Desert War where a chap put a tube over his old fella, so that when wrapped up in his blanket at night, he could just have a pee without getting up in the freezing night. One of his comrades blocked said tube one night , so that the chap was suddenly woken by a warm and wet feeling...

Quote from: Techno on 12 January 2018, 07:21:56 AM
I Just want to make absolutely sure that I don't have any probs peeing in the normal way before they take the catheter out.
Cheers - Phil

Stroll on....I'm definitely not giving up the catheter yet !
Tried to pee normally this morning...Couldn't !........Really REALLY forced it, and a sodding huge piece of prostate somehow came out.
Took a piccy of it against a 5 pee ( ) piece, which I might send* over to the specialist nurse on Monday just to make sure this is 'normal'. (*The piccy, not the 5p piece. )

Don't worry...I'm not going to try and post the pic here. 

Cheers - Phil

In the immortal words of ET, ouch.

 

It didn't hurt, in the slightest, Kitty....Was a Hell of an effort, though..

If it had been a kidney or bladder stone of the same proportions, I would probably have been yelling with pain.....But as it's soft tissue.............

I'm still amazed that something that size could pass through 'the old man'. (It's now sitting in urine sample tube covered with gin......I haven't got any formaldehyde. )
Oh, the joys of getting old. 

Cheers - Phil

Phil - FAR FAR too much info, and yes that really does hurt.....

Bloody hell, that sounds less than fun! No pain?! Was that the aid of the gin...

it certainly doesn't sound very pleasant Phil

Take care

Andy

I can verify that there is a valid comparison between gall stones in the bile buct and blood clots in the bladder. Both are eye wateringly painful.

I'm hoping that my personal experience of both of them are now consigned to history.

  Dear, oh, dear, Phil!     And Jim, how are you doing?

Quote from: Steve J on 12 January 2018, 10:46:47 AM
I remember reading in Spike Milligan's book of his time in the Desert War where a chap put a tube over his old fella, so that when wrapped up in his blanket at night, he could just have a pee without getting up in the freezing night. One of his comrades blocked said tube one night , so that the chap was suddenly woken by a warm and wet feeling...

My late father-in-law was briefly stationed in Catterick in WWII. In the middle of winter, he said they had to break through the ice in the washing-up basin to get a wash in the morning. Anyway, sometimes when someone had come back from the town the worse for wear through drink and collapsed on their bunk, some of the other guys would place a basin of cold water by his bedside. By placing the inebriated man's hand in the water, it was then almost guaranteed that the poor unconscious guy would later relieve himself in his bed ... 

Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 January 2018, 12:34:53 PM
Dear, oh, dear, Phil!     And Jim, how are you doing?

I have the UTMOST sympathies for Jim. Although there are the slightest similarities with what we've been through (are going through)......Jim's problem(s) are FAR more serious than yours truly's....And I know we all wish him the very best for a speedy recovery and ultimately a clean bill of health !!!!

I'M doing FINE....having got rid of that 'lump'.....

Ian.... I passed the tiniest kidney stone, decades ago.....I thought I was dying.
Anybody that's passed one of those nasty little sods deserves oodles of sympathy..(I assume you've suffered the 'delights' of that experience)...It really does hurt !! (Waxy, corpse gray face time.) Never want to go through that again.

Thanks all - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 13 January 2018, 06:37:16 PM
(Waxy, corpse gray face time.)

Erm, how is that different to normal?

Guys, I really do sympathise with both of you for the trials you are going through, and wish you both a very rapid and complete recovery.... but, is it really necessary to go into this degree of detail on a toy soldiers thread? 

Mollinary

Hi Guys, Jim here, the one with all the pain.

Todays blog update is at:

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/hori-vental.html

and makes good reading in sequence with all the others if you like that sort of thing.

Where am I really?

Well I am SOREd, and bored and inDOORs.

I am on a painkiller regime which keeps me going some of the time and some of the time it is just MORE SORE.

I cannot sit upright for more than 5 or 6 minutes (ie the time to write this post) so certainly can't paint, can't file, can't base, can't do anything useful.

What can I do?

I can slouch, read the paper or read my kindle or a soft cover book.

A proper book, forget it, too heavy.

I can't lie on either side, it just elevates or depresses the pain area.

Facedown? Impossible.

I can pee, regularly and often, small volumes only and at least it is not pink or a redder shade.

I can't crap, can only just fart so looking for a bit of improvement here.

Outdoors?

Don't be silly.

Speak again soon, hope everyone else is chugging along.

Thanks for the update, Jim.
A sair fecht right enough.

Be a brave little soldier (easy to say to someone else!).